Image caption: Via Alaska Coastal seaplane this small patient arrived in Juneau en route to Mt. Edgecumbe Orthopedic hospital. He is being helped from airplane by the pilot and Alaska Department of Health medical social worker who met him in...
Notes on verso: Alaska Health Dept. Nursing Division has developed a new "portable clinic" for use of AHN's in itinerant nursing service. Weighs only 11 lbs. fully packed (with delivery packs). Contains 65 items. Can be carried by shoulder...
Photo caption: 20 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska In this scene immediately adjacent to Anchorage there are visible seven structures which are being used as privies. It would appear that the saturation point had been reached and that well from...
Photo caption: 20 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska These two shacks on the North Alley of 4th Avenue house at least six occupants - unlike some other shacks, these two have water and the larger has toilet facilities - both were built by 1917. ...
Photo caption: 16 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska Owing to the housing shortage in this area and the fact that the management of the Alaska Railroad declined to have employees live in the unhealthy insanitary conditions which were prevalent in the...